HP Slimline Desktop - 290 sata hard drive connector and cable

[aaronlyon79]

i  would like to  add a secondary storage to 

HP Slimline Desktop - 290-a0035z   is this possible if so  what connector cable part number do i  need

[wb2001]

@aaronlyon79,

That unit only has 2 Sata data headers, so you could not install a Sata Hard drive.

It does have an M.2 SSD slot suitable for a 2280  SSD.  That presents some interesting ideas.

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

HP does not provide an image of the motherboard (MB) installed in your PC. So it is impossible to know if you have any open SATA ports. It may not be possible to add a second SATA HDD or SATA SSD if your PC's chassis does not support a second SATA storage device.

But your MB does support M.2 PCIe NVME storage.

M.2 devices connect directly to a MB socket. Power and data cable connections are not required.

I don't know where the M.2 socket is on your motherboard because there are no HP motherboard images.

You can get a fast M.2 device. Copy or clone your current factory HDD disk image to the new M.2 device.

Now you can use the new, fast M.2 device as your operating system boot drive and the factory installed slower platter HDD as a data drive.

Regards

[wb2001]

@Grzwacz,

It has The Cosmo A6 motherboard which only has 2 SATA data headers, and the M2.SSD as I said.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Cosmo+A6+motherboard&client=firefox-b-1-d&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&...:

Sorry about my sloppy links, I am trying to sort out different browsers because IE11 functionality on the forum is not working,

[Grzwacz]

Hi Wb2001,

I could not find motherboard (MB) images. I checked HP. Should have Googled the motherboard.

That is insane when you can get motherboard images on Google but not at HP Support documents.

I am a slow typist

There was no reply to this post when I initiated a reply. 

Sorry to have collided with your response.

Regards